Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-10-13

rafting.
Another summer found the Penlitus's
/ pretty country home full of boarders,
and the little mistress too feyerishly busy
| to observe or care for the surprise of
some of her stylish neig at this
| new enterprise. Her husband was evil
IDENTIFY trying to lay by money, q thing he
| had never done in all his careless life
before. She did not know why, she did
not want to know but she threw her whole
strength into helping him.
| Tho months went by the nights and
mornings grew frosty; the naples hing
ont red banners here and there among
the green leaves; and the trailing vines
began to lose their vigor. The summer
guests dropped away one after another,
and it was we'll they did, for the overtaxed
mistress of "Arrowwood" gave way at
last and lay i'll for weeks with nervous
prostration.
"Has Mr. Penlittle somes" The inva-
lid was sitting up for the first time, be
! fore q light, comforting blaze, which
| lent faint colcr to her white cheek.
81 see his carriage this minute, ma'am,"
answered the nurse who was holding
Flank Penlittlc, Jr, on .he window
seat.
Papa tummin, papa tummin, shouted
the three-year-old boy, jumping up and
down till his yellow curls danced jig.
$50 and AJAX him to come up at once,
Susan, and put frankie in the carriage
! for little drive"
The message was hardly necessary,
since Mr. Penlitte never turned to the
right nor left after reaching the porch
steps till he had seen his wife. To- day
something else flushed her face besides
the fire light, as she lifted it to meet the
shower of kisses.
How is my little forlornity today"
| She did not answer the playful ques-
ton, but held out Il letter which had
come to her in his absence. Her hus-
band read it like a man in a dream,
turned back and reread it, and, though it
was but one brief page, seemed unable
to take it in. The wife arose, took a
! few feeble steps about the room to quiet
her impotence, while Mr.. Penlittle was
reading the letter; he rose too and put
his arm around her.
"Will it do, Frank?' she asked with
! trembling eagerness, as a. enough with
what you Aaye?" And he answered with
burst of tears!
The letter was from Lawyer Vance in
forming Mrs. Penlittle that her grand
fathers estate, which had been left in a
terrible tangled condition, was at last set
tied, and that her share, thirty thousand
dollars, would now be handed TO her hus-
/ band or if she preferred, would be put
| to her individual credit.
/ Would this tighten the terrible weight
that had changed her happy, careless
| husband into careworn, depressed, al
most old mani The time had come for
her to know fully the fact which her
quick instinct had long ago devined, that
Mr.. Penlittle, and not Arthur Mawbray,
had been guilty of dishonesty in the
matter of the banks fifty thousand dol
lars.
/ II did not intend TO take the money;
you know that Marie he cried, for a
nature like Frank Penllttle's can not
even repent strongly; but | was fool
enough to tamper with it, knave enough,
| ought to say. In some tempting spec
ulation | lost the money, and it set me
crazy TO think what | had done; what /
had brought on you, darling, and the boy.
When il was all up with me, and | knew
that III another hour | should be arrested
| went ont to buy" Mr.. Penlittle hest
tated and Marias tinge of color vanished
suddenly. 81 was about to add the act
of mailman TO that of thief" he went
on, bitterly, when Mowbray found me,
and you know the rest He plead with me
for your sake and the boys to let him
bear the shame; said he was alone IN the
world, and that he would as soon liye In
h, Int = pT,r,lA ha a
happier man if would give him chance
to save you and our child from disgrace
On, he tempted me, and 1 yielded rs
had done to the first temptation; as
suppose | always will to the end of the
chapter
The wife, Heavens merciful gift tC
this erring soul, laid her soft, firm hand
in his and hope stole back to his side.
81 got hold of MowbraY's property AZ
he directed, and paid the debt, and nov
-
"Now, husband, +" interrupted the wife
her eyes shining with great light, nov
we can undo our great wrong to thi'
noble soul. You know where he isl Let
us start at once to take mis- place, and
send him back with his good name anc
his redeemed fortune, aud our eterna
gratitude that he has saved you, and given
YOU the blessed chance to begin over
again in a new country. Make haste, lei
US go at once"
There was a patter of little feet at the
door, and Mr.. Penlittle, spriuging vi
hastily, brought in the fair-haired chile
and held him up to the mother, mute
protest that he dared not put in words
She broke down and sobbed bitterly; bu
seeing the look OF utter misery on he
husbands face, she bravely steadied he
voice.
at will be better for him, husband, t.
, have father who is sorry for wrong do
ing, and tries to undo it, than to have al
that this country can give him." Ant
then, woman like, she wept harder thai
before.
On the 22d of December, the Penlittles
+ father mother and boy, we're on the Yer
Cruz Mexican railroad, approaching
the City of Mexico. 1t was hard for then
TO realize that it was Christmas tin
when, instead of ice and snow and bite
wind, they were riding with the window
open, and sDuiiing in delight of iessa
mine, roses and myrtle.
The city rose before them, counties